PERFORMING CALCULATION IN THE ART MARKET

The purpose of this article is to suggest a model of calculation in art markets based upon the work of Pierre Bourdieu and of actor-network theory. It will be argued that Bourdieu's concepts of capitals, economic, symbolic and cultural are useful for the specificity they lend to value making processes in the art market. However, actor-network theory's proposal of a distributed form of agency between humans and non-humans (e.g. calcualtion tools) is favoured here, posing a fundamental challenge to Bourdieu's notion of agency as resting solely at the hands of human agents. In order to understand the performance of calculation, this article explores the role of catalogues as an example of a market device in the Scottish auction market. It will be argued that the performativity of the catalogue cannot be fully understood without taking into account not only how it represents and enacts the value/s of aeshtetic objects, e.g. paintings, but also how this performance is mediated by its role as an aesthetic object.     

引进版西文图书的编目与管理

分析了引进版西文图书的编目和管理现状,提出规范编目和科学管理的实施建议.     

Domesticated Animals on Exhibit at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1900–1928

In 1905 the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University began planning for a new domesticated animals exhibition in honor of the 100th anniversary of the birth of its founder Louis Agassiz. The resulting displays of variation and heredity in poultry, pigeons, rabbits, mice, and guinea pigs proved surprisingly popular to museumgoers. Some of these specimens still exist in the museum’s storage facilities, namely a series of poultry donated by the biologist Charles B. Davenport and an elaborate set of guinea pigs from the experimental evolutionist William E. Castle. Situating these domesticated animal displays within academic and popular cultures of poultry fancying, animal breeding, and evolutionary science reveals how a nineteenth-century museum known for its ties to anti-evolutionary principles attempted to modernize its public exhibits.     

Experimental and Numerical Analysis of a Novel Display Case Design: Case Study of the Renovated Anne Frank House

ABSTRACT

Many museums are housed in historic buildings, sometimes the building itself is part of the museum collection. Creating a stable environment by providing a nearly constant temperature and relative humidity at correct levels decreases the risk of object degradation. Maintaining this steady indoor environment, however, increases energy consumption and risks to the historic building. Museum display cases offer a solution to the mitigation of risks to which valuable objects may be subjected by providing an extra layer of protection to indoor climate fluctuations. The Anne Frank House is a historic house museum located in Amsterdam. The museum has undergone several renovations in the last years to deal with an increase in the number of visitors to over 1.2 million a year. The original diaries and other documents of Anne Frank are permanently on display in the Anne Frank House. With the recent refurbishment the possibility arose to design a new state-of-the-art display case. This study presents the results of the experimental research related to the design, performed in-situ. The temperature and relative humidity in the new exhibition space and inside the new display cases were monitored to gain insight into the hygrothermal behavior of these controlled environments. A complementary numerical study was performed to investigate effects of dynamic climate control of the exhibition gallery and climate conditions in the display case under various circumstances. Four main conclusions are presented in this paper. The investigated display case design is able to provide a stable relative humidity environment by means of silica gel, while using an active box-in-box climate control system to create stable temperature conditions. The inner case temperature depends on the temperature supplied by the display case air handling unit. Protocols must be in place in case of malfunction or failure of the climate control system of the display case. The air handling unit of the case needs to be shut off to create a passive environment for the objects on display until necessary actions are taken. Exhibition gallery set points can be less stringent when susceptible museum objects are on display in the display case. The environments are separated and provide an opportunity for energy saving set point strategies. The last conclusion drawn is that the numerical study provides valuable insight into imposing dynamic control of set points for temperature and relative humidity in the exhibition gallery and the effect on the display case environment.     

串行同步双缓冲扫描提高平板显示器的显示亮度和传送利用率

This paper presents a serial synchronous scanning mode in flat panel display (FPD) by adding a latch buffer between the serializer and the driving buffer. Comparing with conventional techniques, the proposed structure can efficiently reduce the brightness loss and improve the transmission performance. Theoretical analysis and experimental results show that the ratio between the lightest weight display time and the relative transmission time is a tradeoff between brightness loss and transmission efficiency.     

光盘的科学分编与合理利用

随着光盘技术的成熟,图书馆馆藏光盘数量日益增多,对光盘的科学分编和合理利用已经成为图书馆所面临的一个重要问题。针对光盘的特点,分析了光盘的几种编目方法和管理模式,使光盘利用率得到提升。     

重构高职高专财经类专业体系的思考

高职高专财经类专业主要是依据学科的不同属性进行设置的,不符合人才市场的需要,必须通过调查本行业不同岗位对人才核心能力的不同要求,重新确定其专业目录.在此基础上,根据核心能力的不同,采用以能力为核心的课程开发方法,重新编制各专业的模块化教学计划;同时,对教学计划的实施进行改革,特别是实训教学的改革.     

钢的奥氏体晶粒度试验中影响晶粒大小因素的研究

本文综合了大量文献资料，就钢中酸溶铝含量、加热方式和奥氏体晶粒的显示方法对奥氏体晶粒大小、晶粒粗化温度的影响进行了较详细的分析研究。     

图书馆多义性空间中展示功能的融入

[目的/意义] 以西安交通大学钱学森图书馆为例,研究展示功能在图书馆多义性空间中有机融入的设计创意和实施方案,为图书馆空间重构与空间布局的调整提供参考和借鉴。[方法/过程] 采用案例分析法,对“钱学森科学精神与教育思想展”在钱学森图书馆空间中的设计思路和布展过程进行分析,概括其与图书馆空间在定位、结构、服务等方面的有机融合。[结果/结论] 通过对图书馆原有空间资源的深度挖掘和重组,实现展示功能在图书馆多义性空间的有机融合,以支撑类型更为广泛的学术文化交流活动,有效地推动图书馆服务转型与空间变革。     

本色纯真 真情跃动——李清照词中彰显的女性意识

李清照生活在传统儒家文化为主流意识形态的男权社会,女性缺乏话语权,而她却以一部《潄玉词》跻身于文坛,本文从她词作中描写的爱情生活,国恨家愁的内容,抒发的主张独立、追求平等、积极进取的精神,以及借助花意象展现她的高洁品性,来论述其词作中凸显的女性觉醒、独立、自珍自爱的意识。